Engagement Announced For Margaret Harper And Ted George
Mr and Mrs T J Harper of Harper announce the engagement of their daughter Margaret Ann Harper to Ted George son of Mr and Mrs D George of Walnut Lane Beckley No wedding date set Miss Harper a Trap Hill 1937 graduate attended Concord College and Phi Sigma Tau pledged member of Glee club and Girls orchestra She teaches at Old Eccles Elementary Eccles He is a 1933 Woodrow Wilson high school graduate and manager of Georges Shop on Heber street Beckley
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. J. Harper
Harper
Margaret ‘Ann Harper
Ted George
D. George
Wale ‘Nut Lane
Beckley
Miss Harper
H. H. Harper
Trap Hill High School
Concord College
Athens
Alpha Sigma Tau National Social Sorority
Glee Club
Eccles
Woodrow Wilson High School
George’s
Heber Street
Margaret Ann Harper
Walnut Lane
Judge Meadows To Address Beckley Women’s Club
Judge Clarence Meadows of the Raleigh county circuit court will speak on International Relations at the Beckley Business and Professional Women’s club dinner meeting in Beckley hotel Tuesday evening. Guests include Lt. Virginia Pitman and Aux Hilda Steiger WACs. Mrs. Bessie Carou is in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Meadows
Raleigh County
Beckley Business and Professional Women's Club
Beckley Hotel
Virginia Pitman
Hilda Steiger
W.a.a.c.s
Bessie Carerou
Local Residents Entertain Easter, Travel and Visits
Private First Class Carl A Bos tick on furlough from Fort Lewis Washington visits with his wife and relatives. Mr and Mrs George G Burnette attended their brother in law Thomas's funeral in Pittsburgh. Miss Margaret Feazell arrives from Elkton Maryland to spend a week with her mother. FE B Sweeney returns home after winter in Norman Park Georgia. Dr and Mrs Frank S Harkle reads and daughters Esther and Mary spend Easter at Riggs farm in Hillsboro Ohio. Miss Mary Louise Farley at West Virginia University spends Easter holidays. Miss Hazel Shearer of Blacks is here for weekend with the Farley family. Mrs John W Smith leaves for Kansas City to join Ensign Smith. Mr and Mrs Lawson Barrett spend Easter in Glenville. Mrs Cecil D Cook hosts five sisters for weekend guests including Mrs E B Fernster and Mrs J D Earle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George G. Burnette
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
P. €. Thomas
Margaret Feazell
Elkton
Maryland
Estella Feazell
Cottage Apartments
Frank S. Harkleread
Esther
Mary
R. A. Riggs
Lawrence Riggs Harkleread
Hillsboro
Ohio
Mary Louise Farley
West Virginia University
Hazel Shearer
J. Kurg
Virginia
C. Farley
South Kanawha
Cecil D. Cook
Dry Creek
E. B. Fernster
Huntington
J. D. Earle
Alexandria
Earle
This Week's Calendar of Red Cross Activities
Daily and weekly notices list service canteens at Prince street and various Red Cross groups meeting across Eunice Raleigh and surrounding churches. Knitting and sewing sessions organize from Memorial Building to church rooms, with dressings, nursing classes, and social committees scheduled across Monday to Sunday for women and community volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bailey Groseclose
Prince Street
Red Cross
Memorial Building
Eunice
Methodist Temple
Singer
Azalea Garden Club
Joan Earl Lilly
Second Avenue
Ida S. O'Dell
Women of the Moose
Mooeral
W. A. Dempsey
The
Unil
First Christian Church
Presbyterian Church
First Baptist Church
Rel Cross
Lillian Sheppard
First Methodist Church
First Church of the Nazarene
Johnstown Road
Allison
Temple Street
Hutchison
Grove Street
F. L. Banks
Tod
RMT
Raleigh
Eastern Star
Danese Farm Women's Club
Myrtle Lively
Sophia
Women's Society of Christian Service of
J. A. Palmer
Dirty Dozen
Heber Street
First Bankist
Sara Toney
Jam
Yamon
Caine
R.mats
Okey Brooks
Cranberry
Fred Canterbury
Hoodoo Comedy Set At Trap Hill Friday Night Play
The Hoodoo a three act comedy will be staged Friday April 30 at 8 pm in the Trap Hill high school auditorium by the junior drama class under Mrs H G Farmer. Receipts go toward junior senior dance expenses. A large cast of nineteen portrays a wedding gift of a magical Egyptian god causing confusion and laughter at a country home near Philadelphia during a house party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trap Hill High School
H. G. Farmer
Remadius Spiggot
Harold Statzer
Mr. Meek
J. E. Blaker
Mr. Dun
Eddie Lester
Amy Lee
Ardyth Ayers
Perrington-Shine
Virginia Lawson
Dodo
Daisy
Drema Gaye Spencer
Ima ‘Clinger
Freda Terreo
Angelina
Seaport Symphony Led by Henry Whitehead in Norfolk
Norfolk's Seaport Symphony, led by Henry Cowles Whitehead, operates with a modest $1,500 deficit compared with larger towns. Whitehead, a Curtis Institute alumnus, programs 60 players, often aided by Navy members, delivering a balanced concert season at Armory Hall with Sunday matinees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Selby
Associated Press
Norfolk
Henry Cowles Whitehead
Navy
Armory Hall
Cowles
Lynnhaven
White
Armory
South
Haydn
Beethoven
Strauss Galop
Stravinsky
Chabrier
Whitehead
Curtis Institute of Music
Philadelphia
New York
Sun
Marie Sutyak Weds Sgt. Kotcho at Army Chapel in Kentucky
Marie Mary Sutyak and Staff Sergeant Raymond Bill Kotcho married Thursday morning at the Army Catholic chapel in Bowman Field Kentucky. The ceremony featured Lt. John McQueen as best man and Josephine McQueen as maid of honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pele Sutyak
Yams
Marie Mary Sutyak
Sergeat Raymond Bill Kotcho
Bowman Field
Kentucky
Father Zink
Army Catholic
Bowihan Field
Kotcho
Mark Twain High School
Glee Club
Nicholas Kotcho
Barhamsville
Virginia
Winding Gulf
Raymond Bill Koteho
Pete Sutyak
Tams
Koteho
Nicholas Koteho
Lady From Tennessee Aids Raleigh County Canteen Efforts
Mrs J D Burnett of Murfreesboro Tennessee visited the Raleigh County Service Men's Canteen on Prince Israel and sent a two pound coffee package from family rations. The center added a built in cabinet and shelves, pending patriotic awnings and venetian blinds. Donations from local residents included cakes pies oranges eggs cigarettes cash and a book for registering service men stopping at the canteen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County Service
Prince Israel
J.D. Burnett
Murfreesboro
Tennessee
Women On All Fronts And War Front Communique
United Nations reports four hundred American women teaching and nursing 107000 Japanese relocated to ten isolation War Relocation Centers. Volunteers teach Manhattan housewives to maximize ration value while others dehydrate Victory Garden produce. Nurses and workers prepare new uniforms and support roles for a broader national service effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations Women's War Front
West Coast
Honore O'Brien
Home Service
Public Service Company
Illinois
Victory Gardens
Eleanor C. Judd
Kew Gardens
Red Cross Blood Bank
American Women's Voluntary Service
New York
Manhattan
West Virginia Students Visit Parents During Holidays
Miss Mavis Mann and J. W. Banks, students at West Virginia University, will spend the holidays visiting their respective parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mavis Mann
J. W. Banks
West Virginia University
Wall
Madelyn Meadows Weds Pvt Gross in 1942 Ceremony
The marriage of Miss Madelyn Meadows of Lester to Private First Class Carl Gross of Camp Maxey Texas is announced by the bride's mother. The ceremony took place November 15 1942 at the home of Rev John Hollinsworth Bluefield. Mrs Gross attended Lester schools. Private Gross graduated Elbert High School and worked at Portsmouth Navy Yard before enlisting November 23. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Paris Gross of Elbert. Mrs Gross resides with her mother in Lester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn Meadows
C. M. Meadows
Lester
Carl Gross
Paris Gross
Elbert
Madelyn Meadows
Camp Maxey
Texas
John Hollinsworth
Bluefield
Gross
Elbert High School
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Portsmouth
Virginia
Army
Women Take War Roles Across China and Russia
After the invasion of coastal regions hundreds of Chinese girls join small cooperatives in the interior spinning yarn for soldiers. Women establish a farm experimental station to improve crops and raise imported pigs and chickens. Russian women claim equal rights and perform war jobs on most fronts alongside men.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Judge Meadows
Carl A. Bostick
Fort Lewis
Washington
Anne Prillamaff
FE. B. Sweeney
Beaver
Hag
Norman Park
Georgia
John W. Smith
Dorothy Sheffler
Kansas City
Kansas
Ensign Smith
Register Social
Madge Richardson
Ursday
Brotherhood of Railroad
Darby
Unday
Margaret Phipps
Seaport Symphony
Betty's Beauty Shop
General Store
Sgt
Bill Kotcho
Lady From
Ruby Barnett
Aberdeen ‘Proving Grounds
Bataan
W.A.A.C
Kwangsi Province
WOMAN
Hite, AP
Lucille Ball
RIFFE
Homer W. Riffe
Mer
North Oakwood Ave
West Virginia
LASCA
Main St
Foster Hardware
A. E. M. Payne CO
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